Born in the CrossfireUpdated at Aug 6, 2026, 18:12
He thought his biggest challenge was surviving the foster system. He was wrong. He was just surviving the truce.Sixteen-year-old Leo spent his entire life believing his parents were ordinary people who died in a tragic accident. But when a hidden key left behind in his mother’s belongings triggers a dead-drop se rver, the illusion shatters.His mother wasn’t an accountant—she was a elite cover agent running a decades-long clandestine operation. And the target she was actively trying to bring down until the day she disappeared? The head of the most ruthless mob syndicate in Eastern Europe: her own husband.Trapped in a web of hidden identities and deadly cover-ups, Leo realizes his father never knew his wife was an agent, and his mother died without ever discovering her husband’s true empire. Now, both sides are hunting for the agent’s missing legacy, and Leo is the only one who holds the key to her final project.Caught between the high-tech tradecraft of a ghost mother and the lethal bloodline of a monster father, Leo has to play a dangerous game of double espionage. Because in a war fought with whispers and gunfire, his existence is the ultimate secret and his inheritance is a target on his back.